The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.

  • Got design chops? lighttpd needs them!

    A star is rising as an alternative, lighter-weight web server that doesn’t start with an A and ends with ‘pache. It’s called lighttpd and they actually maintain their FastCGI bindings,...

  • Rails job in Columbus, Ohio

    Just spotted this mighty brief posting for a Rails position in Columbus, Ohio on craigslist and thought I’d pass it along. It’s never been a better time to jump on...

  • 5th Rails book announced (2nd from O'Reilly)

    Robby Russell has announced his authorship of an upcoming book that’ll provide “… an in-depth look at RoR, how it works inside and out”. The book is to be published...

  • Rails 0.12.1: No major update without a bit of pain

    There’s nothing like pushing a new major update in order to find bugs in the code when its exposed to a couple of hundred working applications. Thankfully the fixes were...

  • Rails 0.12.0: Eager associations, new Base.find API, assertions revisited, more Ajax!

    The time had come to butcher the piggy-back query and introduce real association loading through outer joins. Behold, the glorious eager loading of associations that makes it silly easy to...

  • Rails Day: Make an application in 24 hours and win!

    Since Rails is supposedly this über-productive bag of lightning bolts, you should be able to accomplish great things within a single clip of 24 hours, right? That’s the assumption Rails...

  • Portland Rails presentation draws full house

    Lucas Carlson talks about how Portland is turning into a power zone for Rails development and how great his presentation there went last night: Last night I gave a presentation...

  • RForum 0.1 sees the light of day

    RForum is one of the earliest open source applications based on Rails, but it has only just reached a state where the authors Andreas Schwarz and Alexey Verkhovsky were willing...

  • Instiki 0.10.0 comes on the Rails

    Alexey Verkhovsky has completed the transition of Instiki to a Rails-based core that uses the latest versions of all the framework instead of the ‘03 dialects it was currently running....

  • Contrasting scaling in J2EE and Rails/FastCGI

    Jon Tirsen has taken a closer look at the differences between the threaded scaling approach in J2EE and using Rails with FastCGI. While the former requires object pools, induces thread-safety...